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Peter Machado

Most Rev.Dr. Peter Machado is the Indian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and the present Archbishop of Bangalore. He was installed as the Archbishop by Archbishop Giambattiata Diquetro and Archbishop Emeritus Most.Rev.Dr. Bernard Moras. previously he was the bishop of belagaum.

He hails from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Karwar. He was born in Honnavar, a place in Uttara Kannada district of Coastal Karnataka.

Bishop Peter Machado was born on May 26, 1954, in Honavar. He was ordained a priest on December 8, 1978, for the Diocese of Karwar, which had been created in 1976. He was appointed Bishop of Belgaum on Feb. 2, 2006, and was ordained bishop on March 30 that year. Prior to his episcopal appointment, he completed doctoral studies in Rome in Canon Law and served as procurator, judicial vicar, consultor and secretary of the Karnataka regional bishops’ Laity Commission, based in Bangalore.